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Wait until we have our first planet-wide crop failure.

• guenthert 2y ago
  Unlikely to happen any time soon as the planet will continue to have multiple climate zones (just different ones than now). And it won't take a planet-wide crop failure, just a wide-spread one or other major disruption. Arguably we (or rather the poorer nations in Africa) came close, when Ukraine found it difficult to ship their harvest.
  • lisper 2y ago
    > the planet will continue to have multiple climate zones Yes, but large-scale crop production is not so easy to move. > it won't take a planet-wide crop failure Yes, by "planet-wide crop failure" I didn't mean that there won't be a harvest anywhere, just that production will drop low enough that there is no more surplus. I'm pretty sure that will be enough to destabilize our geopolitics, and it will be all downhill from there for quite a while.